welcome to siege day networking

[weifinder]

( for the sake of keeping everything that happens on that day contained, please feel free to use this as a catch-all network 'post' for everyone's communications and shouting over each other should that be happening!

all top level comments below can be new communications, please threadjack each other at will! adding a general time marker to the top of your comment to this post can indicate a when where that communication is happening, as you like. )

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[bearshermark]

I haven't seen him yet. Should I have?

[He hopes not. Hopes Sizhui is okay]

I don't.. really have the hands to send anyone out in search of wounded..

[downswing]

No. ( Ignore the shrieks suddenly sparked behind him, the clashes of flesh and steel. He remembers to come back: ) And you? Injured?

[bearshermark]

[Ow]

Hah. I'm not allowed to have injuries.

[He has an overprotective bodyguard with healing capabilities himself, after all]

..Should I try to reach you if I see Sizhui in here?

[downswing]

Hoo — goo... good.

( He's got this. )

Speak. If you see — see him.

[bearshermark]

Yes.

..Be careful, yourself.

[downswing]

Will not die.

[bearshermark]

Good.

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[paperbutterflies]

Senior Wei, I will get the talismans from your room. They are all the altered kind, are they not?

[downswing]

Keep the... ( What were their names? ) Rest alive also.

[bearshermark]

I'm making every effort.

[No promises can be made, but.. as ever, he's doing everything he can]

[weifinder]

No, but I near walked up on their rear guard. Lan Zhan, how are you? Where's Sizhui?

[weifinder]

Sizhui! Sizhui, thank you for responding, I was—they're both kind, we've needed the repelling for the farmhouse the whole of our time there, but both are in my room, your father never managed to burn them all.

( ............ as these things clearly need mentioning, but it isn't intention, it's thinking about what resources are on hand for his family right now. )

[weifinder]

They're the remnants of those who die uncleanly, to simplify, and they're harrying ranks at present under careful direction. A sweep through can help end this with how ranks have been thinned.

[weifinder]

I am, and with the thinned ranks, I can sweep through with what I have here to free everyone of the rest. The biggest threat I still see are Unhalad's older dead—not the newly turned, those have been the first falling all day.

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[weifinder]

Eleven, you're well? How bad are the injuries?

[downswing]

Ali — ( Excuse the background noise, someone, something is clashing. ) — well. We are — he is inside. Stay low.

[scrapgege]

Is that... is that safe for you to do?

It's not good for a human to be around ghosts and undeads too much and controlling them? That demands a lot of energy!

[bearshermark]

Yes.

So far, nothing I haven't been able to handle. Though I'm trying to use my magic sparingly; I'm worried I won't have enough if this goes on too long.

[royal_venant]

[ Regulus rolls with that explanation rather well. Sure, why not remnants of those who've died uncleanly? ]

Would something that keeps Unhalad's forces from retreating from your, um, forces be welcome?

In what direction are your forces moving?

[weifinder]

I won't make myself a target when I stand alone. I'm heading back to the citadel, Lan Zhan—take care.

[weifinder]

The forest holds Anurr's people and creatures, I want to cut off their retreat toward the citadel and the mines. If you've a means to help flank their forces, then yes. It's welcome. What can you do?

Can you take the far side, opposite the woods?

[weifinder]

They're lending their energy to it, I'm giving it direction. If I was aiming to make them do what they weren't inclined toward—yes, it would be different.

Though don't worry! I'll want a good long nap after we're through, but we all need to live before I'll be ready for that!

[weifinder]

Pace yourself. Breathe. You're doing what you need to, and keeping people stable is important now, not making them whole. You have this, Eleven. You're doing well.

[bearshermark]

[He's needed to hear that more than he even knows. It's stressful work; he isn't used to playing this role under nearly so much pressure and he doesn't feel fully qualified to perform it- he isn't Serena after all- but they're depending on him and he can't afford to fail]

Thanks.

[Eleven takes in a deep breath.]

..I heard you were out in the Citadel? Or something. [He'd only been half-listening, distracted with his work] Are you safe?

[downswing]

To the ci — ( To what end, what haste? What — but there another blow... blows. Curse the awkward interruptions of a battlefield. Very rude. ) Where will you find shelter?

( The house of pleasures, surely, if Wei Ying seeks a known entity. )